If you're looking for side hustles and want something that can pay you well without much of a long-term commitment, here are some great sites where you can earn $300 per task:
1. Appen
Social Media Video Evaluator (When Available)
With a Social Media Video Evaluator gig at Appen, you can get paid $300 one-time to watch 750 short videos and enter data about them.
This gig usually takes around 25-30 hours to complete and doesn't require any experience.
Requirements:
- Must be located in the United States.
- Create an anonymous email for project purposes.
- Ability to create temporary accounts on specified social media platforms.
- Access to an iOS or Android device with sufficient storage and screen recording capability.
- Commitment to completing tasks within deadlines.
2. Textbroker
At Textbroker, you can get paid to be a freelance writer and create blog posts for clients.
There is no experience required to apply, however they do have a skills test you'll need to pass to get approved as a writer.
Here, you get paid by the word (up to $0.055 each), depending on the quality of your articles.
For instance, you could earn $302.50 for a 5500-word article.
You can also earn by having people hire you for direct orders, where you make your own payrates.
On top of that, there is an option for you to join groups where you have certain preset payrates.
3. Voices
If you want to get paid very well to read a script, book, or just about anything else, you might look into voiceover sites.
Voices is arguably the biggest voiceover job site in the market.
Here, you can earn $100 to $250 for around 30 seconds or less than a page of script.
National commercials for big brands pay the most, which is often between $5,000 and $25,000 per gig.
Audiobooks pay $200-$300/finished hour. Therefore, you can make up to $3,000 or so, depending on the length of the audiobook.
Or, you could even start out doing explainer videos, which are considered the easiest voiceover jobs because they are short, usually between 30 and 60 seconds, and they use simple language to explain a new idea or to introduce a new product.
No matter what kind of voiceovers you do, you can usually get very well compensated at a site like Voices.
Here's a page with a breakdown of how much you can make.
4. WP Tuts+
At WP Tuts+, you can get paid to write about WordPress and building websites.
Here is how much they pay:
- $150 per tutorial for the first month.
- $175 per tutorial from the second month onwards, with a pay review after six months.
- $60 per Quick Tip
- $300-$500 for “Premium” level tutorials/screencasts
They want posts about difference aspects of WordPress including:
- Your Favorite Code Snippets (custom blocks of useful homebrew code)
- Theme Development tips, tricks, or tutorials
- Plugin Development tips, tricks, or tutorials
- In-depth Standards, Best Practices, and other “WordPress Culture” type articles
5. 99designs
At 99designs, you can get paid good money for each graphic design project you get done for clients.
You can either have people approach you and hire you directly or compete with other designers to win contests for cash.
Usually, you can get paid in 3 business days or so.
When you start working with a new client, they charge a $100 introduction fee (spread out over the client’s first USD $500 charges) to cover their cost of matching you with clients.
They also charge a platform fee on every project to provide you with support, secure payments, fraud protection and more.
The platform fee is based on your designer level: Top level 5%, Mid Level 10%, Entry Level 15%.
99designs contests can range in price from $199 to $1,499, depending on the project.
The minimum payout that designers can request is $25.
They also have around 1500+ contests going at a time.
6. Real Python
At Real Python, you can get paid around $300 per article to guest post articles about python, web development, data science, productivity, psychology, careers, and a lot more.
They expect articles to be at least 1,500 words and prefer writers to be advanced-level developers.
They're known for paying via PayPal.